Michael
H. Walters, Founder and
Chairman of CRI, has more than 30 years of
sales, marketing and manufacturing experience. Walters began his
career with Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, where he was
involved in employment and corporate recruiting for 80 plants worldwide.

From
HR Walters moved into sales and marketing where he held numerous
positions, including Commercial General Manager in the
reorganization of a major acquisition by Olin. In 1980,
Walters became Vice President and General Manager for Madison Steel,
Inc. with the purpose of redirecting the company which he
successfully did. In 1983, Walters moved to Vice President -
Sales and Marketing for Alstrip, Inc., subsidiary of Allegheny
Technologies, and established a national metals distribution
system.

Walters is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Harvard
University’s Advanced Marketing Program. He is founder of See
Swing, Inc., and is a member of several boards, including Child’s
Voice School, where he has served as President for the past five
years.

Thomas D. Nelson, Partner

Thomas D. Nelson
joined CRI as a Partner in 1999. Previously, Nelson was recruited to serve as
the Chief Operating Officer for Fullerton Metals/Metals-USA. From 1990 to 1995,
Nelson was the President of National Materials Company in Elk Grove Village,
Ill. His background also includes a variety of positions at Inland Steel,
including Outside Sales Representative, Sales Manager, General Sales Manager and
Vice President of Sales.

Nelson holds a BBA from Loyola University and an MBA from the
Executive Program of the University of Chicago. After graduating
from Loyola in 1962, he joined the United States Marine Corps, where
he held the rank of captain and was awarded six air medals while
serving in Vietnam.

Advisory Board

Dennis R. Marx, CPA, is a shareholder of JMG Financial Group, Ltd.,
in Oak Brook, Ill., where he is a senior personal financial advisor
to executive officers of public and private businesses as well as
high net worth families. As an independent consultant, Marx was
instrumental to the growth of an international, privately-owned
executive search firm.

Prior
to his position at JMG, Marx was the partner-in-charge of the
Personal Financial Counseling Practice at Ernst & Young in Chicago,
where he served on the firm’s National Tax Computer Services and
Personal Financial Counseling committees. Additionally, Marx was
the firm’s media spokesperson on ESPN’s “Nation’s Business” morning
news program and was frequently quoted in the Chicago press about
personal financial planning.

Marx
is a Certified Public Accountant and an AICPA Accredited Personal
Financial Specialist. He holds a BS degree in Accounting from the
University of Dayton, an MBA in Finance from Loyola University and
is a Graduate of Harvard Business School’s Program for Management
Development.

Dr.
T.
Grant John has spent more than 35 years in the metals industry. He
is the Principal of T.G. John & Associates, Inc., a strategy and
turn-around consulting firm focused on the primary metals and metal
manufacturing industries. Prior to forming his own firm, John was
most recently President and Chief Executive Officer of Special
Metals Corporation, a publicly-traded company and the world’s
leading producer of nickel-based alloys. He successful led the
company through a Chapter 11 financial and structural
reorganization.

John
began his career in 1966 at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., now known
as LTV Steel. He became the President of Ingersoll Steel Co. in
1977, a unit of Axel Johnson Inc., where he later became Group Vice
President, Metals. Later, John headed the North American activities
of Avesta Inc., an affiliate of Avesta Sheffield AB; was the
President and Chief Operating Officer of Washington Steel
Corporation; and served as Senior Vice President of Lukens, Inc.,
holding responsibility for Lukens’ commercial and strategic
activities up to its merger with Bethlehem Steel in 1998.

John
holds BS and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering at the
University of British Columbia. He has served on the boards of
Special Metals Corp., Oregon Metallurgical Corporation and Titanium
Industries, Inc., as well as the Specialty Steel Industry of North
America (SSINA).

Robert W. Patterson, J.D., began his legal career in 1960 with
Mayer, Brown & Platt, one of Chicago’s largest law firms, where his
practice focused on anti-trust litigation. He later joined Hopkins
& Sutter, becoming a partner in 1968. In the early 1980s, Patterson
was heavily involved in the business operations of Hopkins & Sutter,
serving on the firm’s Executive Committee for four two-year terms
and serving as its recruiting chairman for five years. As
recruiting chairman, Patterson was responsible for identifying and
attracting talented attorneys for several offices throughout the
United States. Mr. Patterson is now retired from Hopkins & Sutter.

In
1992, Patterson was listed by the “National Law Journal” as one of
the 100 most influential attorneys in the United States in
recognition of his leadership in providing legal services to various
federal banking regulatory agencies during the savings and loan
crisis. Patterson is a graduate of the University of Illinois and
Northwestern University’s School of Law.